Half

"half; halfway; middle." This word appears about 123 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew.

First, the word is used to indicate "half" of anything. This meaning first occurs in Exod 24:6: "And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar."

Second, hasî can mean "middle," as it does in its first biblical appearance: "And it came to pass, that at midnight [literally, "the middle of the night"] the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt…" (Exod 12:29). In Exod 27:5, the word means "halfway": "And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst [i.e., up to the middle] of the altar."

"to divide, reach unto." This verb appears about 15 times in biblical Hebrew and has cognates in Phoenician, Moabite, and Arabic. The word most commonly means "to divide," as in Exod 21:35: "…Then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it…"

an adjective, is used (a) as such in the neuter plural, in Luk 19:8, lit., "the halves (of my goods);" (b) as a noun, in the neuter sing., "the half," Mar 6:23; "half (a time)," Rev 12:14; "a half," Rev 11:9, Rev 11:11, RV.